I like being alone, but here's my problem with it: Say you commit a crime against society : what do they do? They take you away from the openness and freedom of that society and confine you within a highly limited much smaller society. And if you find yourself on the wrong side of that…

This week marks one year since Donald John Trump was elected president. The world's still here, and yesterday POTUS was deemed of sound mind and body, but plenty of folks still seem upset about it. And why not? The whole thing, from the campaign to this anniversary, has been more than a bit of a…

That there's a fine candidate for either volume of my Worst 1000 Jokes list, but it's by way of saying this is about 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, what was presumably at the time a fairly standard ultra-psychedelic major network tv freakout special featuring the devil, Jerry Lee Lewis and some human primates. Sure you…

Example 1: easily select a bunch of songs and change the details. Scenario: I import songs from CD while offline, and don't sit and there enter every bit of information because I'm living my life for once, for f.... Later, while online or not, I struggle and thrash my way around this cutting edge high-tech…

Dear Ben New listener here, essentially Left by nature but striving to observe an apolitical light and seek rational, emotion-lite, facts-based discourse from all perspectives. Difficult that search has proven on the Con side...believe it or not, you seem to presently be the best fit for my criteria. Faint praise I know, but I mean…

Admittedly, it's a weak prediction: ***In the future, the letter combination making the wordsound "trump" will have evolved new meanings.*** For certain and with no reasonable room for doubt, the truth of that statement is profoundly, uncontrollably inevitable; in fact, it has already happened. BUT few…

As I listen to the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack and read the lyrics, it's clear that (especially for 1969, the year of its copyright) the character of Judas is quite self-aware. He's cognizant of his part in this grand drama, and he knows Jesus knows he knows. They have each other's number. Like in an…

Who am I to judge him anyway? especially on Easter Monday? The answer is, with limits. Questionable timing aside, I am not now nor have I ever been a soothsayer, so whatever politics comes out of this White House and spreads across the world as we know it, time will only tell. All I can…